{"id":42585,"date":"2016-07-06T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=42585"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:20:08","slug":"tony-dunsts-european-adventure-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/tony-dunsts-european-adventure-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dunst\u2019s European Adventure: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

partypoker ambassador Tony Dunst is currently plying his trade in Las Vegas, but before he headed to “Sin City,” he played a big tournament in Europe. Here’s the second part of his trip report, click this link to read part one<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

With that dynamic, I raised AhQd first to act, and when it folded to Omar on the button he re-raised. After the blinds folded I made the call, and Omar followed through with a small bet on the Th-2h-5h flop. I called his bet, and the turn brought the 8h.<\/p>\n

I checked to Omar and discretely wiped the drool from my mouth, and after thinking for a moment, Omar checked behind. The river was an unfortunate 8c, and I decided to check to Omar again because I felt he\u2019d value bet all his flushes, and bluff plenty of the time he didn\u2019t have one. If he made a small bet I was going to raise, but instead, Omar confidently reached for chips, then fired out a full-pot bet of 250,000. I shrugged, tossed a chip onto the felt, and cringed when Omar turned over pocket-tens. I flung the ace of hearts face up towards the muck, then laughed and told Omar \u201cI guess I owed you an eight\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u2019d lost half my stack, I was still well above average in the tournament, and the rest of the day went much smoother. We were playing down to 14 players, and with 15 left I found pocket kings and opened the pot. A short-stack behind me went all-in with ace-king, and my pair held up to knock him out. We stopped the tournament and bagged our chips, and I learned that I was in second place with 1.26 million. But Omar was miles in front, with a stack surpassing 4 million.<\/p>\n

The tournament resumed at 2pm the following afternoon, and for the first few hours I was entirely card dead. We reached the final table of nine in the evening, and I had less than 600,000 going in. Of course, Omar was still in the lead, and he immediately designated himself table-captain by raising countless hands. But now his opponents felt more comfortable fighting back, and as the final table continued, Omar\u2019s stack gradually dissipated.<\/p>\n

I won some small pots to carry me over a million, and with six players left I could tell my experience with short-stacks gave me the advantage. Most of my opponents were far less comfortable playing the push-fold game that the high blinds necessitated, and I built my stack over 2 million by attacking their pre-flop raises.<\/p>\n

With five players left, I raised the button with ace-jack, and the other aggressive player on the table\u2014a young online player named Andriss\u2014shoved from the small-blind for about 17 blinds. I knew he wasn\u2019t likely to be shoving light, but I felt my hand was too strong to fold, and reluctantly made the call. He tabled ace-queen, but I drilled a jack on a flop and he never caught up.<\/p>\n

Suddenly I was the chip leader four-handed, and a moment later I scored a dramatic knock-out against Omar, who was down to 8 blinds when he shoved over my raise. I wasn\u2019t thrilled to call with A4, but the price was right, even against the A10 he was holding. The flop contained both a 4 and a 10, but another 4 rolled off on the turn, and my friend Omar was out the door.<\/p>\n

After eliminating Omar, I had over 6 million in chips, while my opponents had 3 and 2 respectively. But the blinds were an astronomical 75,000-150,000, and I knew the match would come down to whoever won the all-ins.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it wasn\u2019t me. First I shoved 97o blind-vs-blind against an opponent with 13 bigs, and when he snap-called I said \u201cWell, you\u2019re ahead\u201d. That was true, but he\u2019d called with pocket threes, so I was in much better shape than I could\u2019ve hoped. But his pair held, and now the three of us were close to even.<\/p>\n

I was reduced to three million after an unfortunate river gave my opponent trips vs my top pair, and a couple hands later the same player opened to 700,000 on the button. He\u2019d made enough big raises during the final table that I wasn\u2019t overly concerned about his sizing, and felt comfortable shoving the pocket nines I found in the big-blind. But the button excitedly blurted \u201cCall!\u201d then tabled pocket queens, and he hit an extra queen on the flop just to be sure.<\/p>\n

The saying goes that only one person leaves the tournament happy, but I was feeling great for a guy who went from chip-leader to out in a matter of minutes. I try to think big-picture about poker, and the big-picture of this tournament was that I got lucky for tons of chips in four different pots, and had mostly traveled to Cannes hoping for vacation and a little money. I ended up getting plenty of both (third paid 39,000 euros), and I\u2019ll definitely return to Cannes for the WPT National next year.<\/p>\n

The day after the tournament finished, Steve O\u2019Dwyer sent me a message on Facebook, congratulating me on the result. \u201cThanks man\u201d I wrote, \u201cI\u2019m a fan of your system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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